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> Subject: NEWS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY ----- The Straight
> Scoop
> I've just returned from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
> Naval Air
> Station, where we did three shows for the troops and
> toured several
> locations around the post visiting with some of the
> finest military
> personnel on planet earth.
> The kids seemed to really enjoy the shows and
> especially
> liked......
> "This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag" and "In America."
> We had a great time
> with them. We saw Camp X-Ray, where the Taliban
> detainees are being held
> only from a distance, but I picked up a lot of
> what's going on there
> from talking with a lot of different people.
> The truth of the matter is that this operation
> is under a
> microscope. The Red Cross has an on-site presence
> there and watches
> everything that goes on very closely. The media is
> not telling you the
> whole truth about what's going on over there. The
> truth is that these
> scum bags are not only being treated humanely, but
> they are probably
> better off healthwise and medically than they've
> ever been in their
> lives.
> They are fed well, able to take showers and
> receive state
> of the art medical care, and have their own Moslem
> chaplain. I saw
> several of them in a field hospital ward where they
> were being treated
> in a state of the art medical facility.
> Now let's talk about the way we treat these
> people. First
> of all, they have to be watched constantly. These
> people are committed
> and wanton murderers who are willing to die just to
> kill someone else.
> One of the doctors told me that when they had
> Taliban in the hospital
> the staff had to really be careful with needles,
> pens and anything else
> which could possibly be used as a weapon. They also
> throw their
> excrement and urine on the troops who are guarding
> them. And our guys
> and gals have shown great restraint in not
> retaliating.
> We are spending over a million dollars a day
> maintaining
> and guarding these nasty killers and anyone who
> wants to see them
> brought to the U.S.A. for trial is either out of
> their heads or a lawyer
> looking for money and notoriety. Or both. I wish
> that the media and the
> Red Cross and all the rest of the people who are so
> worried about these
> criminals would realize that this is not a troop of
> errant Boy Scouts.
> These are killers of the worst kind. They don't need
> protection from us,
> we need protection from them. If you don't get
> anything else out of this
> soapbox, please try to realize that when you see
> news coverage much of
> the time you're not getting the whole story, but an
> account filtered
> through a liberal mindset with an agenda.
> We have two fights on our hands, the war
> against terror and
> the one against the loudmouthed lawyers and left
> wing media who would
> sap the strength from the American public by making
> us believe that
> we're losing
> the war or doing something wrong in fighting it.
> Remember these are the
> same people who told us that Saddam Hussein's
> Republican guard was going
> to be an all but invincible enemy and that our smart
> bombs and other
> weapons were not really as good as the military said
> that they were.
> They also took up for Bill Clinton while he was
> cavorting around the
> Oval office with Monica Lewinsky while the
> terrorists were gaining
> strength and bombing our Embassies and dragging the
> bodies of dead
> American heroes around the dusty streets of Somalia.
> It's a shame that
> we can't have an unbiased media who would just
> report the truth and let
> us make up our own minds. Here I must commend Fox
> News for presenting
> both sides much better than the other networks. They
> are leaving the
> other cable networks in the dust. People like being
> told the truth.
> Our military not only needs but deserves our
> support. Let's
> give it to them. The next time you read a media
> account about the bad
> treatment of the Taliban in Cuba, remember what I
> told you. Been there,
> done that.
> Footnote: I got an e-mail from a rather irate
> first cousin
> of mine the other day who has a daughter who's
> lawyer and she seemed to
> think that I was painting all lawyers with the same
> brush. Please
> understand that I'm not doing that at all. That
> would be like saying
> that all musicians were drug addicts. There are a
> lot of good and honest
> attorneys out there. I happen
> to have one of them, but it seems that they never
> get any airtime. It's
> always the radicals who get their opinions heard;
> who fight the idea of
> the military tribunals and cite The Constitution and
> the integrity of
> America as their source of justifying their
> opinions. Well, first of all
> The Constitution says,
> "We the people of the United States", it doesn't
> mention any other
> country. And secondly, as far as integrity is
> concerned, I don't think
> some of these folks would know integrity if it bit
> them. What do you
> think?
> God Bless America
> Charlie Daniels
> Copyright 2002 Charlie Daniels